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- Title
Starting out together.
- Authors
Lixia Qu; Weston, Ruth
- Abstract
This article focuses on the first unions of women born in different years. It looks at how the first union of these women started, whether it began with cohabitation or marriage, and how old they were when they entered their first union. The proportions of women born in different years who had a child within four years of the start of their first union are also examined. Patterns of family formation were examined in the Australian life Course Survey, conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies in 1996. This study was based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of nearly 2700 respondents aged 25 to 70 years. Respondents provided a history of the pathways they had taken in family formation; beginning with the first time they had lived with a partner. This history included the dates of any periods of cohabitation, marriage, birth of children, and separation. For simplicity, the present analysis focuses on the reports of women. Given the relatively small number of women in the sample who reported the birth of a child outside cohabitation or marriage (35 women), the different pathways followed by this group were not assessed.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; WOMEN; MARRIAGE; UNMARRIED couples; FAMILIES; SURVEYS; AUSTRALIA. Australian Institute of Family Studies; RESPONDENTS; CHILDBIRTH
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 60, p76
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article